This summer, I mailed my first package to Africa. I was repeatedly warned that it would not reach the recipient,…
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Courage, Please Step Forward: The Advantage of Being a Human Who Does Hard Things
“My friends on the cross-country team had to get up at 5am to go to their meet,” my 16-year-old daughter…
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Passed Through Her Hands: A Sacred Exchange with a Recycler of Hope
Within minutes of my feet touching African soil, I met Alice. She was in the welcome party of Changemakers waiting…
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The Song of Empty Rooms for Braving December’s Blues
Don’t hold on to a song. That’s been my motto since I was a ten-year-old-mixed-tape-making, boom-box-loving freckle-faced girl. I spent…
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One Window Is All You Need: Heart Wisdom from a Teenage Wanderer
Guest Post by Natalie Rebecca Stafford, age 15 I was around four years old when I started asking my mom…
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How You Handle Humankind’s Most Powerful Emotion Can Build or Break Life
“And then I realized that to be more alive I had to be less afraid, so I did it. I…
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